contrib/adddepend does not properly re-create multi-column foreign keys.
От | Adam Buraczewski |
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Тема | contrib/adddepend does not properly re-create multi-column foreign keys. |
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Msg-id | 20021201155027.GB690@localhost.localdomain обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: contrib/adddepend does not properly re-create multi-column foreign keys.
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Список | pgsql-bugs |
Hallo, I've used contrib/adddepend script (written in Perl) to move my databases from PostgreSQL 7.2 to 7.3-style foreign key syntax, in order to use new dependency information and get rid of those "create constraint trigger" commands generated by pg_dump. The script does a very good job indeed. It can be also downloaded from author's website: http://www.rbt.ca/postgresql/upgrade.shtml I noticed that both versions (attached to PostgreSQL 7.3 sources and downloaded from author's website) have problems with multi-column keys, which are not re-created properly. For example, I had a table of the following definition: create table foo ( a integer not null, b integer not null, c integer, d integer, primary key (a, b), foreign key (c, d) references (a, b) match full ); After dumping this using pg_dump from PostgreSQL 7.2.3, and loading the dump into PostgreSQL 7.3, adddepend script tried to create the constraint with following command: alter table foo add foreign key (c, b) references (a, d) match full; which didn't work of course, because columns b and d were swapped. After some digging in the code, I found that when subroutine "findForeignKeys" tries to parse trigger parameters, it loads first two column names into $lcolumn_name and $fcolumn_name variables, and all the rest into @junk array. After this, it uses Perl pop() function, each time twice, to get a pair of column names, and then stores first pop'ped name as a foreign key column name and second as a referenced column name. This is wrong, because these names are swapped this way. Not only primary keys are swapped with foreign keys, but the order of columns in a multi-column key is not preserved either. I think one should use shift() function instead, and it would eliminate both problems. Simply: the program takes column names from the wrong end of the array :) I already notified the author of the program and attached patches to both original upgrade.pl and contrib/adddepend scripts. Regards, -- Adam Buraczewski <adamb@polbox.pl> * Linux registered user #165585 GCS/TW d- s-:+>+:- a- C+++(++++) UL++++$ P++ L++++ E++ W+ N++ o? K? w-- O M- V- PS+ !PE Y PGP+ t+ 5 X+ R tv- b+ DI? D G++ e+++>++++ h r+>++ y?
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